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Timothy Morton - Lunch with Graduate Students

Humanities graduate students are invited to join Timothy Morton, 2014 Wellek Lectures scholar, for lunch and a conversation about getting a PhD and finding an academic job.  Professor Morton will speak from his own experience of struggles and successes (100 rejections before he landed his first academic job), as well as his experience with PhD students in the current job market.

Timothy Morton is the Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University.  Prior to his position at Rice, he was Professor of English at UC Davis, where he served as job placement officer.  He also held positions as Associate Professor at University of Colorado, Boulder and Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University.  Professor Morton has written extensively about the PhD process and the academic job search on his blog Ecology without Nature (http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/) 

He is the author of Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism and Critical Theory (Chicago, forthcoming), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard UP, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), seven other books and one hundred essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, food and music.

Please RSVP at https://eee.uci.edu/survey/mortonlunch.